All-optical carrier recovery with periodic optical filtering for wavelength reuse in RSOA-based colorless optical network units in full-duplex 10Gbps WDM-PONs

Author

Kehayas, Efstratios ; Schrenk, Bernhard ; Bakopoulos, Paraskevas ; Lazaro, Jose A. ; Maziotis, Alexandros ; Prat, Josep ; Avramopoulos, Hercules

Author_Institution

Sch. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Nat. Tech. Univ. of Athens, Athens, Greece

fYear

2010

fDate

21-25 March 2010

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

3

Abstract

Optically assisted downstream cancellation for wavelength reuse in WDM-PONs is demonstrated, allowing downstream extinction ratios up to 9 dB for symmetrical full-duplex data transmission at 10Gbps with RSOA-based ONUs. PON budgets of ~20dB can be reached.

Keywords

optical fibre networks; optical filters; semiconductor optical amplifiers; wavelength division multiplexing; RSOA-based colorless optical network; all-optical carrier recovery; bit rate 10 Gbit/s; full-duplex WDM-PON; optically assisted downstream cancellation; passive optical networks; periodic optical filtering; wavelength reuse; Filtering; Optical fiber networks; Optical filters; Optical modulation; Optical network units; Optical packet switching; Optical receivers; Optical sensors; Optical transmitters; Passive optical networks;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Optical Fiber Communication (OFC), collocated National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference, 2010 Conference on (OFC/NFOEC)

Conference_Location

San Diego, CA

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-55752-884-1

Type

conf

Filename

5465609